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NO. 226,666. Patented April 20,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NICHOLAS A. MENAAR, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MARY E. BARBER, OF SAME PLACE.

TEA-KETTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,668, dated April 20, 1880,

Application filed March 24, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NICHOLAS A. MENAAR, of Butfalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tea-Kettles, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specitication and accompanying drawing, which shows a side elevation of a tea-kettle with a part broken out on one side, so as to show a portion in section.

The object of my invention is a tea-kettle constructed as fully described hereinafter, to facilitate manufacture and to obtain a more durable article.

It has been usual to make tea-kettles of three or more parts, the top being one part, the bottom another, and a cylindrical body hein g jointed at its edges to the edges of the top and bottom. The objections to kettles made in this way lie in the difficulty of forming good seams at the corners and in the readiness with which a leak is occasioned by an inward blow on the body, which carries the metal of the latter away from the edge of the top or hottom sections, which, being flat, are unyield- My improved kettle is illustrated in the drawing, in which A is the top; 0, the bottom B, the cylindrical central section, and B the 0 spout.

Instead of joining the body to the top and bottom at the edges of their horizontal portions, I spin or turn up the latter, so as to form a doWnwardly-projecting flange, A, on the top and an upwardly-projecting flange, G, on the bottom, the said flanges, with the section B, to which they are jointed, as shown, constituting the body of the kettle.

As the joints D D are at some distance from the corners, tools can be introduced, so as to operate with outside tools to flatten them and readily make them perfectly tight.

The main advantage results from the fact that the seamed parts will yield under external NICHOLAS A. MENAAR.

Witnesses:

JAMEs SANGS'IER, DANL. H. BURTIS. 

